Scoop Jardine and Kris Joseph have won a lot of basketball games at Syracuse University. Ranked opponents, unranked opponents, Big East Tournament thrillers, NCAA Tournament games. The victories stretch into the triple digits.

But as their careers in Syracuse funnel into their final few regular-season opportunities, Jardine and Joseph scan the schedule and seek a few more treasured triumphs.

The two SU seniors savored their win over Pittsburgh last month; Jardine and Joseph had never beaten the Panthers.

So now, they fix their sights on another obvious omission on their SU career resumes.

Louisville.

“I know that it’s just another game and we’ve very capable of winning,” Joseph said. “I’m not going in there pressing, like, ‘I’ve got to beat Louisville.’ But it would be nice to go over to their house and get a win. That would be something that I can finally say I did.”

The Cardinals, at 20-4 and 8-4 in the Big East, have won seven straight meetings with the Orange. SU last defeated Louisville during the 2005-06 season, when the Orange won 79-66.

Of SU’s recent seven losses to the Cardinals, four have come at Louisville, one in the Big East Tournament. SU has lost twice to Louisville in the Carrier Dome.

The Orange will meet Louisville tonight at 7 in the Yum!Center. The Cardinals, fresh from Saturday’s come-from-behind win at West Virginia, have won six straight Big East games. Finally relatively healthy, Louisville has climbed back into the national college basketball conversation.

“They’re playing great,” SU coach Jim Boeheim said. “I think they’re playing the best in the league right now, so they’ll be a tremendous challenge to go down there on Monday night.”

In previous years, the Cardinals leaned heavily on the 3-point shot. Louisville ranked sixth in the league last year in 3-point field goal percentage. But the Cardinals took such an overwhelming number of them, even when they shot the ball poorly, they could overcome a low percentage by the sheer number of threes they took.

When Louisville twice beat the Orange in 2009-10, it shot 30 percent from 3-point range both times. But the Cardinals still outscored SU 63-27 from the 3-point arc in those contests.

Last year, SU shot a robust 45 percent from 3-point range (9-for-20). But Louisville was even better The Cardinals made 13-of-27 from beyond the arc and beat SU 73-69.

This season, Louisville ranks fourth in the league in 3-point attempts. The Cardinals, with the emerging Gorgui Dieng in the post and the addition of freshman Chane Behanan, a fierce competitor on the inside and on the backboards, seem to rely less frequently on the 3-ball.

At 39 percent, Kyle Kuric is still a dangerous threat from the perimeter. So is Chris Smith, who leads the team in 3-point field goal percentage (.463) in Big East games. Freshman Wayne Blackshear, a scoring phenom who debuted against West Virginia after missing all of the season with a shoulder injury, shot 3-of-5 from beyond the arc against the Mountaineers.

But this Louisville team seems more intent on spreading the scoring wealth.

“They’re really versatile. They play tough. They’ve got shooters, they’ve got inside presence. They move the ball really well,” Joseph said. “But I think we’re going to be prepared. We know what they like to do -- get the ball in the high post and kick out to the shooters. So we’re going to have to do a great job of getting out there, putting up a high hand and crash the glass.”

They also play a scrambling 2-3 zone that Connecticut guard Ryan Boatright called “more of a matchup zone” than the one Syracuse employs.

The Orange is coming off one of its best shooting performances of the season. SU shot 10-of-16 from 3-point range in its win over UConn. Boeheim said his team could not play much better on offense. But the Orange shot 48 percent from the field and 45 percent from the 3-point arc against Louisville last year and still lost.

“That’s going to be a good game,” said Boatright, whose Huskies lost to Louisville and Syracuse in succession. “They both got firepower. It’s going to come down to whoever plays defense better.”

Jardine did not want to discuss specifics about the Louisville game. He was in no mood after Saturday’s win to talk strategy or consider the Cardinals in any way but one:

Jardine wants to beat Louisville. He wants to leave Syracuse knowing that there was no team that his Orange could not conquer.

“This is the year. Really. I feel like this is the year,” Jardine said. “We got hungry young guys that know we haven’t beat them so they’re going to go out there and play as hard as they can for us. When you got a crew like that that’s there for you, I’m calling it. We got two times to beat these guys. And we’re good enough to do it.”